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...custom of "adoption" is an honor invented by the Bolsheviki to replace the Tsarist method of making distinguished persons honorary officers in the Navy or Army. The main difference in the Bolshevik idea is that Government departments adopt a regiment or a warship. The Foreign Office recently adopted a regiment, but M. Georges Tchicherin (Foreign Minister) did not become a colonel; he became an honorary private...
...weeks?of the finest book of poetry yet accomplished by a native Malaysian between the ages of 13 and 13½ ?the review that devotes its attention solely to errors of punctuation?the review that is entirely about the reviewer's petit dejeuner?the blurb? the blurb?the monstrous regiment of blurbs...
...Chicago Musical College, father of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., theatrical producer, in Chicago. Dr. Ziegfeld, as a young music student, knew Wagner, Liszt, Rubenstein. Born in Germany, he came to the United States just before the Civil War, in which he served as Lieutenant Colonel of an Illinois regiment...
...subaltern of the Guards struck a policeman with the flat of his sword because he failed to salute the King's colors, which were carried past him oy the Guards' Regiment...
...individuals who are personally grateful to the Americans who joined the cause before the United States entered the war. At the same time it has the dimensions of a national gift, for aside from the premiers and ex-premiers. Marshals of France and cabinet members who have contributed, every regiment in the French army and even school children have added their bits...